Dissimilar Effects of Thalidomide in Dizygotic Twins
- 1 October 1980
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research
- Vol. 29 (4) , 295-297
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0001566000007819
Abstract
Among 93 cases of thalidomide embryopathy ascertained in Brazil, one pair of female dizygotic twins was found. One of them presented complete paraxial hemimelia in the right arm while the other showed a triphalangeal thumb at the left hand and had duodenal stenosis. Of the eight dizygotic twin pairs exposed to thalidomide in utero described thus far, only four were concordant for the type of malformation.Keywords
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